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Who Am I / Who Are You
On Ancestry, Collapse, and the Oceanic Call in Jafa and Owuor ©2025 Arthur Jafa, Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery and Sprüth Magers “Woooooow!”A young girl gasped as she walked into the space where Arthur Jafa’s AGHDRA (2021) was installed, at Bourse de Commerce, Paris. A vast, empty hall. A few stairs to sit on.…
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The Quiet Bloom
A personal reflection – Wake Up Retreat at Healing Spring Monastery The flowers in the monastery field bloomed this morning. I walked the same path I’ve taken every day this past week—quiet, familiar, worn by my footsteps and the rhythm of my thoughts. But today, something shifted. The light fell differently, or maybe my eyes…
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The Moldy Aesthetic
From the Petri Dish to the Canvas, Fungus and Bacteria are “Cultured“ Gala Porras-Kim, “Out of an instance of expiration comes a perennial showing” (2022) © courtesy of the artist; photograph Andy Keate; exh. Gasworks, London It was the first time I had to walk through a plastic sheet to enter a museum room. That…
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Embodiment of a Muse: “Maternity” by Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka, “Maternity” (1928) © Tamara de Lempicka Estate LLC Once again, I am here. Every night, I am forced to remove my garments for an infantile who doesn’t deserve it. No please, no thank you. There’s no warm tea waiting by the fireplace. No fresh robe hanging by the door, greeting me into…
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